Sunshine and Melanoma a Medical Researcher Wanted to Examine the Relationship

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Essay

Sunshine and Melanoma A medical researcher wanted to examine the relationship between the amount of sunshine ( x )in hours, and incidence of melanoma, a type of skin cancer ( y ). As an experiment he found the number of melanoma cases detected per 100,000 of population and the average daily sunshine in eight counties around the country. These data are shown below. {Sunshine and Melanoma Narrative} Estimate the number of skin cancer cases per 100,000 people who live in a state that gets 6 hours of sunshine on average.

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